Fred -
“…even if what Peter Gleick did was wrong – and it was – that shouldn’t be taken to mean that his scientific integrity was lacking.”
I agree that the one does not necessarily follow from the other, but…
As he has breached his societal integrity in pursuit of his AGW advocacy, would you not agree that we should be at least suspicious of his scientific integrity in matters touching on AGW? If I were a scientist in his field I would now be busy checking any work of his on which my own work relied.